<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13939]]></link><description><![CDATA[True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's talk withal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wealth is the product of labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46132]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,  The fading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,  The fading Alps and archipelagoes,   And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18721]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so bad about that. That's not enough, but I couldn't convince the publisher to print a 500-page children's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so bad about that. That's not enough, but I couldn't convince the publisher to print a 500-page children's book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53415]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,  To hail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,  To hail his father; while his little form   Flutters as winged with joy. Talk not of pain!    The childless cherubs well might envy thee     The pleasures of a parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of interaction with regulators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of interaction with regulators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51265]]></link><description><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutral men are the devil's allies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35477]]></link><description><![CDATA[We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three action movies -- football or sports stories or blowing up cities. Just make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65848]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47842]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like going into an away stadium and establishing that as our home. Nothing's better than going into an away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like going into an away stadium and establishing that as our home. Nothing's better than going into an away stadium and shutting up 80,000 people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10242]]></link><description><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about the war in Iraq, and we're trying to give people that sort of information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55928]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town,  Had earned a living ever.   His work was strong and clean and fine,    And none who served at Crispin's shrine     Was at his trade more clever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40848]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a very kind and caring person, he was respected by everybody and he respected everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29906]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a very kind and caring person, he was respected by everybody and he respected everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came out and pretty much had their way with us offensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28387]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came out and pretty much had their way with us offensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28387</guid></item></channel></rss>